Boxes 2 and 3
Periodicals. Contain articles by and about Wells, reviews, letters to
the editors.The Bookman
“H.G. Wells and the Giants”, G.K. Chesterton review of The
Food of the Gods, December 1904, p. 124.

The English Review Magazine
Reference to Wells’ Outline of History, May 1950, p. 344.

Everybody’s
“The Dreamer Who Wrote of Things to Come”, by John W. Klein,
29 January 1949, p. 15.
Item in the “Everybody’s Talking” column and The
Stolen Bacillus, a short story, 15 September 1956, p. 8, 17-18, 31.

Everyman
“Shaw--Wells--Bennett”, letters by each of the above in response
to a request to write advertisements for Harrods, 14 March 1929, p. 25-6.
“Catching out our Authors”, by Frank Sidgwick, 18 March 1933,
p. 325.

John O’London’s Weekly
“The Place of Franklin Roosevelt in History”, by H.G. Wells,
3 December 1933, p. 326-327.
Review of Mind at the End of its Tether in “A Bookman’s
Diary” by Colophon, 13 July 1945, p. 148.
Reference to A Contemporary Memoir in “A Bookman’s
Diary” by Colophon, 18 March 1949, p. 148.
Review of Vincent Brome’s H.G. Wells, A Biography by J .F
.Horrabin, 2 March 1951, p. 120.The Outline of History reviewed by Campbell Naime, 31 August 1951,
p. 530.
“No Great Novelists?” article on Wells and others by John
O’London, 8 February 1952, p. 133.
“H.G. Wells’s Last Day Out”, by F.J. Camm, 28 March
1952, p. 295.
“Photographing the Fabians”, by Allan Chappelow, 7 May 1954,
p. 474-5, 469.
“H.G.Wells: prophet and seer”, by Hugh Schonfield, 28 September
1961, p. 346-7.
“H.G. Wells”, letter to the Editor, 26 October 1961, p. 466.
“Encyclopaedist or myth-maker?” by George Catlin, 7 December
1961, p. 624.

Labour Monthly
“Press freedom in wartime: a symposium”, Wells contributes,
with Shaw and others, to the discussion, March 1941, p. 118.

The New Nash’s (Nash’s - Pall Mall Magazine)Things To Come, The Story of the Film by H.G. Wells, October 1935,
p. 107-l28.

New Statesman
“Ego and apocalypse”, review of The Time Traveller: the
Life of H.G. Wells, by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, review by V .S.
Pritchett, 15 June 1973, p. 885-6.
Also, in same issue, advertisement for the MacKenzie book with other recent
Weidenfeld and Nicolson publications, p. 879.

New York Review of Books
“The charms of H.G. Wells”, review of Wells biography by Norman
and Jeanne MacKenzie,
review by Noel Annan, 15 November 1973, p. 33-36.

New York Times Book Review
“The master rejected”, review of Henry James and H.G. Wells:
A record of their friendship, review by Harry T. Moore, 18 May 1958,
p. 25.
“One big name to another”. Review of Arnold Bennett and
H.G. Wells: A record of a personal and literary friendship, review
by Harry T. Moore, 20 November 1960, p. 26.
“An outline of H.G. Wells”, by Godfrey Smith, 21 August 1966,
p. 30-31, 39-40, 42, 44.

The Observer Review
“Man in a muddle”, review of The Time Traveller, review
by A.J.P. Taylor, 17 June 1973, p. 32.

The Outline: a weekly magazine
“Paradise on paper. Men who have tried to imagine the perfect state”,
article which includes discussion or A Modern Utopia. No author
given, 9 February 1929, p. 338-339.

Punch
“Magnis componere parva” [on Wells and great men], 5 March
1902, p. 169.
“Anticipations”, [futuristic Sports report], 12 April 1902,
p. 290.
“Invalid cookery”, [poem on futuristic cooking], 14 May 1902,
p. 358.
Review of The War in the Air, 6 January 1909, p. 18.
Short humorous item on Wells and Chesterton, 16 June 1909, p. 429.
Short humourous spoof on futuristic remark of Wells’s, 4 August
1909, p. 77.
Review of Ann Veronica, 20 October 1909, p. 288.
Review of The History of Mr. Polly, 8 June 1910, p. 431.
Review of George Meek, Bath Chair-man, by Himself, which has an
introduction by H.G.W.,
22 June 1910, p. 467.
“Wellsian” futuristic cartoon, 29 June 1910, p. 482.
“Novelists as reporters”, [includes parody of Wells’s
style], 19 October 1910, p. 278.
Review of Christina Alberta’s Father, 23 September 1925,
p. 334.
Short humorous remark in Charivaria section, 3 February 1926, p.
113.
“The World of H.G. Glizzold by William Wells”, [spoof of The
World of William Clissold],
6 October 1926, p. 374-5.
Review of The King Who Was A King. 13 February 1929, p. 195.
“Trade literature. The masters’ touch”. [includes advertisement
written in the style of Wells],
20 March 1929, p. 310.
“The Wells of thought”. [parody of Wells, Outline of History?]
24 April 1929, p. 46l.
Short humorous remark in Charivaria section. 20 November 1929,
p. 561.
Review of The Autocracy of Mr. Parkham, 30 July 1930, p. 138.
Review of The Science of Life. 18 March 1931, p. 306.
Review of The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, 9 March 1932,
p. 279.
Review of The Invisible Man, film version, 7 February 1934, p.
146.
“A Striking event”, [Wellsian futuristic piece], 11 April
1934, p. 403.
“Mr. H.G. Wells thinks it ought to be quite easy”, [cartoon
of a seal balancing the globe on its nose], 5 December 1934, p. 627.
Review of Star Begotten, 23 June 1937, p. 702.
Review of Brynhild, 22 September 1937, p. 334.
Review of The Fate of Homo Sapiens, 6 September 1939, p. 279.
Review of You Can’t Be Too Careful, 28 January 1942, p. 80.
Review of ‘42 to ‘44: A Contemporary Memoir upon Human
Behaviour During the Crisis of
the World Revolution, 10 May 1944, p. 406.
Review of The Happy Turning, 7 March 1945, p. 213.
“H.G. Wells: An impression by L.G. Illingworth”, Cartoon,
21 August 1946, p. 161.
“H.G. Wells writes to his Mother”. Advertisement for Basildon
Bond with cartoon of Wells,
22 September 1948, ii.
Review of The History of Mr. Polly, film version, 2 March 1949,
p. 222.
Review of Henry James and H.G. Wells by Leon Edel and Gordon N.
Ray. Review by Anthony Powell, 5 March 1958, p. 329.
Review of H.G. Wells; Journalism and Prophecy, 1893- 1946,
edited by W. Warren Wagar. Review by Bernard Hollowood, 9 February 1966,
p .213.

Radio Times
Programme announcement for Whoosh; an outline of H. G. Wells, 2-8
September 1972, p. 39.

The Spectator“Mr. H.W. Nevinson”. Letter to the Editor, with Wells
as one of the co-signatories, 2 June 1933, p. 805.
“Lady of pain”, review of Apropos of Dolores, no author
given, 14 October 1938, p. 624.
“The man who shocked the world”. Advertisement for life of
H.G. Wells, to appear in Sunday Express, 10 March 1951, p. 271.
Also “H.G. Wells”, letter to the editor by Edward Blishen,
10 March 1951, p. 284.

The Sunday Times“The earnest philanderer”, review of The Time Traveller;
the life of H. G. Wells, review by Cyril Connolly, 17 June 1973, p.
39.

World Digest“Free speech in war time”, by H.G.Wells. Vol. 2, no. 9,
January 1940, p. 1-3.

Newspaper Clippings:
Reviews of Ann Veronica:The Spectator, 20 November 1909The Daily Telegraph, 4 October 1909The New Age, 24 February 1910 [by Arnold Bennett?]The Daily News. 12 February 1910, by G.K. Chesterton.
All of the above reviews have been mounted and bound into a 20 pp. pamphlet.

Review of Experiment in Autobiography, Times Literary Supplement,
11 October 1934.

Series of articles by Wells on the New Deal. Manchester Guardian,
10, 17, 24, 31 May 1935.
Note: These clippings are in very brittle condition.